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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
September 1, 2006
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
September 1, 2006
Anglers –
This report is earlier than the usual Sunday morning deadline for the reason that we will most likely not have electrical power after mid-day Friday. For the past several days Los Cabos residents were watching Hurricane John after it developing below Acapulco
and remained on a steady course northwest and is now predicted to make land fall near Cabo San Lucas around mid-day Friday. John is a category three storm and no one is taking the threat lightly, most tourist resorts convinced all visitors to get out of town while they could and return flights to the Untied States were a capacity levels. The Mexican National Guard evacuated some 15,000 residents into shelters because of the danger of them staying in their low lying houses. Of course all port activities were shut down and most likely will be for several days. On Thursday boat owners in the fishing village of La Playita were very busy hauling all of their pangas off the beach to safer high ground and likewise Puerto Los Cabos were taking all precautions with their heavy machinery, taking everything far away from the jetties. This storm will be the first real test for the marina jetty work, as swells are predicted to reach over fifteen feet and the high tide will be at the same time as the hurricane is expected to be at its closest point.
Residents were busy on Thursday making final preparations, traffic was chaotic, grocery and hardware stores were packed, gasoline stations had long lines and most of them had run out of fuel by early afternoon. Rainfall started late Thursday evening and the weather was rapidly deteriorating ever since. Friday will be a very long day for anyone in the Southern Baja region, by late in the day the worst should be past, but who knows how bad the damage will be, with flooding and utility outages this might keep people out of communication for days. Now is time to just stay safe and take care ones personal families and property and ride the storm out.
As for fishing, we obviously had a shortened week, but the hot wide-open bite for yellowfin tuna continued right until it was time to evacuate all of the boats off the beach off of La Playita. The action continued to be found from La Fortuna to the Iman Bank and fleets from all directions were making the long run to get in on this bite since this was really the only consistent action in the area. Supplies of sardinas were more scattered but were sufficient on most days, not much chum was needed and the fish were striking bait whether it was dead or alive. The average size yellowfin was around 15 to 30 pounds, with some fish to over 60 pounds mixed in the same schools. Charters continued to catch anywhere from 12 to 20 tuna per trip. A handful of dorado were found in the same areas, but the bite for them was not consistent as these fish found it hard to compete with the tuna. Also a few sailfish and marlin were also being hooked into as anglers were targeting tuna, but the action was definitely dominated by the yellowfin. Now we will have to see what affects that Hurricane John has on this bite that has been so good for over the past month and who knows what will happen to the schools of baitfish along the shoreline.
The combined panga fleets sent out approximately 28 charters for the shortened week with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 4 sailfish, 2 striped marlin, 32 dorado, 65 skipjack, 34 bonito, 24 pargo and 395 yellowfin tuna.
Good fishing, Eric
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